apology for his spontaneous judgment of the incident, after the inventor of the device had given the scholar a
detailed account of its recent design and manufacture. But the apology succeeded only in convincing the abbot
further that the blunder had been serious. It put the thon in the position of a mountaineer who has scaled an
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advance. It must have been shattering for him,buy runescape gold, Dom Paulo thought, because of the way it was handled.
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quality, sufficiently bright even for close scrutiny of brittle and age-worn documents which tended to be
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burning and adjusted?aa situation which caused the Poet to versify mercilessly concerning the demon
Embarrassment and the outrages he perpetrated in the name of penitence or appeasement.
For several days the thon and his assistant studied the library itself, the files, the monastery’s records apart
from the Memorabilia?aas if by determining the validity of the oyster, they might establish the possibility of the
pearl Brother Kornhoer discovered the thon’s assistant on his knees in the entrance of the refectory, and for a
moment he entertained the impression that the fellow was performing some special devotion before the image of
Mary above the door, but a rattle of tools put an end to the illusion. The assistant laid a carpenter’s level across
the entranceway and measured the concave depression worn in the floor stones by centuries of monastic sandals.
“We’re looking for ways of determining dates,buy runescape money,” he told Kornhoer when questioned. “This seemed like a
good place to establish a standard for rate of wear, since the traffic’s easy to estimate. Three meals per man per
day since the stones were laid.”
Kornhoer could not help being impressed by their thoroughness; the activity mystified him. “The abbey’s
architectural records are complete,” he said. “They can tell you exactly when each building and wing was added.
Why not save your time?”
The man glanced up innocently. “My master has a saying: ‘Nayol is without speech, and therefore never
lies.’ ”
“Nayol?”
“One of the Nature gods of the Red River people. He means it figuratively, of course. Objective evidence is
the ultimate authority. Recorders may lie, but Nature is incapable of it.” He noticed the monk’s expression and
added hastily:
“No canard is implied. It is simply a doctrine of the thon’s that everything must be cross-referenced to the
objective.”
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A low hiss from the stairway alerted the basement again, although there had been several earlier false
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glances among them as they waited.
This time the warning hiss had not been in vain. The monk who watched from the head of the stairs turned
solemnly and bowed toward the fifth monk on the landing below.
“In principio Deus,” he said softly.
The fifth monk turned and bowed toward the fourth monk at the foot of the stairs. “Caelum et terram
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“Cure tenebris in superficie profundorum,” chorused the group.
“Ortus est Dei Spiritus supra aquas,” called Brother Forbore, returning his book to its shelf with a rattling of
chains.
“Gratias Creatori Spiritui,” responded his entire team.
“Dixitque Deus: ‘FIAT LUX,’ ” said the inventor in a tone of command.
The vigil on the stairs descended to take their posts. Four monks manned the treadmill. The fifth monk
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bumping the top of the archway. He pulled a mask of smoke-blackened oily parchment over his face to protect
his eyes, then felt for the lamp fixture and its thumbscrew, while Brother Kornhoer watched him nervously from
below.
“Et lux ergo facta est,” he said when he had found the screw.
“Lucem esse bonam Deus vidit,” the inventor called to the fifth monk.
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“et tenebras ‘noctes,’ ” Whereupon they set their shoulders to the turnstile beams.
Axles creaked and groaned. The wagon-wheel dynamo began to spin, its low whir becoming a moan and
then a whine as the monks strained and grunted at the drive-mill. The guardian of the dynamo watched anxiously
as the spokes blurred with speed and became a film. “Vespere occaso,” he began, then paused to lick two fingers
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“Lucifer!” he yelped, leaping back, then finished lamely: “ortus est et primo die.”
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look?”
“I never said he was?a”
“And this is your excuse for believing yourself to have a true vocation, is it not? That this, this?ashall we
call him a ‘creature’??aspoke to you of finding a voice, and marked a rock with his initials, and told you it was
what you were looking for, and when you looked, under it?athere THIS was. Eh?”
“Yes, Dom Arkos.”
“What is your opinion of your own execrable vanity?”
“My execrable vanity is unpardonable, m’Lord’n'Teacher.”
“To imagine yourself important enough to be unpardonable is an even vaster vanity,” roared the sovereign
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“M’Lord, I am indeed a worm.”
“Very well, you need only deny the part about the pilgrim. No one else saw such a person, you know. I
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inquired about the abbey? Yes? And where would he have disappeared to, if he ever existed? No such person
came past here. The brother on duty at that time in the watchtower didn’t see him. Eh? Are you now ready to
admit that you imagined him?”
“If there are not really two marks on that rock where he?athen maybe I might?a”
The abbot dosed his eyes and sighed wearily. “The marks are there?afaintly,” he admitted. “You might have
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“Then prepare to take it.”
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WHACK!
“Deo gratias!”
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